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What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Veronica Anne Roth
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.
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I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.
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Are you conceding?' he says, his mouth falling open with mock surprise. 'Seems like that serum did you some good after all...' I shove him as hard as I can. 'Take that back. Take it back now.' 'Okay, okay!' He puts up his hands. 'It's just... I'm not very nice either, you know. That's why I like you so- ' 'Out!' I shout, pointing at the door.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
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I forget that he is another person instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.
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Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. “Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?” “Yes.” “Feel how steady it is?” “It’s fast.” “Yes, well, that has nothing to do with the box.” I wince as soon as I’m done speaking. I just admitted to something. Hopefully he doesn’t realize that.
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feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.
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Caleb, I say, I love you. His eyes gleam with tear as he says, I love you, too, Beatrice.
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
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I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.
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I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.
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And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.
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He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.
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